Fundraising efforts fill in a gap for resources in town camps

Town camp residents in Alice Springs have been supported to ensure their homes are clean and safe in the face of the COVID-19 threat.

Town camp residents in Alice Springs have been supported to ensure their homes are clean and safe in the face of the COVID-19 threat.

Tangentyere Council together with Children’s Ground and families from Yarrenyty Arltere created cleaning kits distributed to 30 houses across the local town camp.

The kits provided every family in the community with essential items like tissues, toilet paper, Pine-O-Clean, Chux, gloves and soap. Children’s Ground has been co-ordinating a nationwide fundraiser to ensure under resourced town camp residents and remote communities have the capacity to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Panic buying has left many essentials products out of reach for already vulnerable households who have less income to prepare for the pandemic.

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Children’s Ground spokesperson Chloe Abbott said without the fundraising, many families would simply go without basic cleaning necessities for their homes.

“Because they don’t have those financial resources or flexibility like other Australians do, in the past three weeks when everybody else was rushing out (shopping) a lot of our families just didn’t have that ability,” she said.

The fundraiser can be found online at: au.gofundme.com/f/support-first-nations-communities-prevent-covid19